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N. PETERS. PHOTO UTHDGRAPH UNITE ROBERT'GOFF, OF FOREST GATE, UOUNTY OF ESSEX, ASSIGNOR TO W. S. THOMSON & 00., OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,322, dated January 4, 1881.

Application filed August 11, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England February 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT GOFF, of Forest Gate, in the county of Essex, England, have invented certain Improvements in Corset Attachments, of which the following is a speci fication.

This invention relates to a novel construction of attachment for corsets, the objects being to provide a fastening which will present a comparatively smooth surface, and will also afford facility for the replacement or renewal of a broken busk, or one which has its covering worn by a new one. These objects, it will be understood, are very desirable, inasmuch as 1 5 those parts of the corset which inclose the steel busk are liable to wear rapidly at the edges.

My invention consists in a corset attachment comprising two parts, of which one is composed of two steel strips inclosed in a lap of cloth which carries a row of eyelets and has its edges turned in to make a double lapjoint with one, side of the corset, and the other is composed of a steel husk-piece fitted with hooks and covered with a lap of cloth, the

2 5 edges of which are turned in to make a double lap-joint with the other side of the corset, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the corset attachment composed, as

usual, of two parts, A B, one of vhich is furnished with hooks and the other with eyelets. Fig. 2 shows these parts A- and B connected together, and Fig. 3 is an edge view of the part B.

3 5 Referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the part A is composed of two steel strips, to a, set parallel to each other and covered with a lap of cloth, a the edges of which are turned in, as indicated in the sectional view, Fig. 1*. 40 The steel strips to a are set sufficiently far apart to allow of a row of metal eyelets, a to be inserted between them, and they are held securely in place in the cloth covering by lines of stitches which follow the edges of the 4 5 strips. For greater security to the metal eyelets, a strip of leather or other strong fabric is laid within the lap of cloth to receive the eyelets. The strain, therefore, which the eyelets receive will be taken in part by the inserted 5o fabric, and thus the tendency of the eyelets .to break away from the cloth covering will be removed. v

b is a steel husk-piece covered by a lap of cloth, b, the edges of which are turned in, as shown in the view, Fig. 1*, and secured to this steel busk are hooks b corresponding in number and position with the eyelets c These hooks, one of which is shown in the detached views, Figs. 4 and 5. are made with rounded heads and tubular stems, and holes are made in the steel 1) to receive the stems, which are then expanded for the purpose of riveting the hooks in place. This I prefer to do when the cloth covering has been laid over the steel, so that the riveting of the books may serve, also, to 6 securethe cloth to the busk. Two lines of stitching following the edges of the steel will complete the securing of the steel to its cover.

To form the lap of cloth, whether it be a or g b, I take a strip of cloth of about four times the Width of the steel to be inclosed, and having folded it lengthwise at the middle of its breadth I insert the steel therein. The steel I then secure in place by stitches, as explained, and turn in the edges of the cloth, as shown at Fig. 1*, in order that they may form a double lap-joint with the vertical edge of the corset. The ends of the cloth strips I finish off by a binding to correspond with the binding at the top and bottom edges of the corset, and I attach the clothed strips of steel to the opposite vertical edges of the corset by stitching.

When the covering a or b is worn one or both of the parts A B may be readily removed 85 by ripping the lines of the stitches which attach them to the corset, and new parts A B may be applied to the corset by stitching, as before, so as to produce a new front.

It will thus be seen that the parts A and B 0 constitute a covered busk, which, with its fastenin gs, is made separate from the corset and capable of being attached thereto by sewing, so as to be removed whenever desired.

Having now explained the nature of my in- 5 vention, I wish it to be understood that I clain1 A corset attachment consisting of two parts,

A and B, the part A being composed of steel strips to a, inclosed in a lap of cloth, a mo which carries a row of eyelets, a, and has its set, capable of being attached thereto by sew- IO edges turned in to make a double lap-joint with ing, and removable therefrom, substantially as one side of the corset, and the part B comherein described.

posed of a steel husk-piece, b, fitted with hooks Dated the 15th day of July, 1880.

5 b and covered with a lap of cloth, I), the ROBERT GOFF.

edges of which are turned in to make a double \Vitnesses: lap-joint with the other side of the corset, the H. K. VHITE, whole constituting a. covered busk with at- A. BISHOP, tached fastenings made separate from the cor- 1 Both of 66 Chancery Lane, London. 

